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Nadia Maria
El-Cheikh - Director
Professor Nadia El-Cheikh received her Ph.D. degree in History and
Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University in 1992, soon after
which she joined the Department of History and Archaeology at AUB as
Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Professor in 2006 and
served as Director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
between 2002 and 2004.
Part of
Professor El-Cheikh's work has
focused on the history of Arab Byzantine relations, and her
book, entitled Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs, was published by
Harvard Middle East Monographs in 2004. She has also done
research and published articles on aspects of gender history in the
Abbasid period. The latest focus of her
work seeks to explore the workings of the Abbasid court
through an investigation of the reign of al-Muqtadir.
Tarif Khalidi - Shaykh Zayid Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Between 1996 and 2002 Professor Khalidi was the Sir Thomas Adams'
Professor of Arabic and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He was
also Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the
school. His principal field of interest is pre-Ottoman cultural
history of the Arab world.
At the start of
the 2002-03 academic year, Professor Khalidi returned to AUB taking on the
post of The Shaykh Zayid Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Professor Khalidi had been a faculty member at AUB for over
25 years before leaving the university. He received degrees from
University College, Oxford (BA, Modern History, 1960; MA, 1963) and
the University of Chicago (PhD, Islamic Studies, 1970).
Among his
recent publications are: Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical
Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) and The Muslim
Jesus (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2001). While
at AUB, Professor Khalidi will be working on three scholarly projects: a new
translation of the Qur'an commissioned by Harvard University Press,
a biography of the Prophet Mohammad for Random House and an
introduction to Arab social history for Cambridge University Press.
Aliya
Saidi
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Assistant Director
Aliya Saidi received her Ph.D. from King's College, University of
Cambridge, in Oriental Studies in 2001 and joined CAMES soon
afterwards. She has a background in Modern Middle Eastern Studies
and specialized in the role of women in Medieval Islam. As the
Assistant Director and Coordinator at CAMES, she coordinates student affairs and the
center’s activities, lectures, conferences, and publications.
Nina Ghattas
- Administrative Assistant
Nina Ghattas has been with CAMES for the past 35
years, providing support for the faculty and students of the Center.
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